"Conrad's Butterfly"

11.5”x15” Full-Color Fine Art Edition Printed on White 80 Lb Paper Cover Stock

This is a reproduction of the original artwork Wm Conrad Bowen painted with acrylics & white colored pencil on illustration board in the late 1970s. When. Conrad was a kid, every summer he lived to capture caterpillars on milkweed plants, put ‘em in quart jars with some milkweed leaves & watch them grow, shed their skins & consume tons of leaves. Early on, he learned their eggs, deposited by butterflies, were tiny little yellow-white spots on the undersides of leaves — & the caterpillars started out tiny, tiny, too! Over time, Conrad became an expert caterpillar farmer. In the late summer & fall, things would really ramp up when the big plump caterpillars would attach themselves to the Ball cap lids & morph into shinny electric green chrysalis that would hang silently from the lids in the security of the jars on a dark shelf in the fruit room throughout the winter. Come spring, Conrad would pull the jars out, sit them in a window sill & patiently watch as the chrysalis turn from green to black with transparent skins. One day, without notice, delicate, but majestic, Monarch butterflies would begin emerging with damp folded wings flapping in the air to dry them out.

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